It has the function of making the mind settle on what is positive, negative, or indeterminate.

In the night, she found, her mind had settled.

We sat around for a while, talking once our hearts and minds had settled down.

Over and over she had played through each minute movement until her mind finally settled with single thought to its one purpose.

Those were separate issues, in her mind already settled.

By the time he reached Fifth Avenue, his mind had settled back into the present.

If he let his mind settle on the suspicion it'd twist and fly away, like all the others.

His mind settled upon the idea of life in a country cottage.

But being a Catholic helped me to become a writer," she explained, "because it settled my mind.

My mind settled down to the question of my chains.